I'm somewhat like you except I've gone through your process enough time to have learned a few things, some of these have been mentioned.

1. Wit the vast amount of DeFi projects being pitched, you will need to first-off find a platform that co-mingles with your idea. There's also absolutely no need to go to some other country to mingle with rich people. We now have hundreds of platforms that have ICO and PRE-ICO launchpads. Hone your idea down, and find a launchpad that matches your idea and see what they say.

I don't have much time here but don't forget the #1 thing to do when you have a eureeka moment: VALIDATE your idea!!! I can't stress the importance of this. And I mean really validate. You have a problem you found a solution to that will make everything better for a certain group of people? OK then ghire a Fiver to make a double blind survey running your idea through your target market and also your non-target market. Remember your investors may not be your clients so the idea needs to sound good to all....


Anyway: try Startups.com.... not expensive and you will learn all you need to know NOT to go down the rabbit hole of starting a non-starter!

Good luck!

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to help beginners! It's truly appreciated 

I have been mining for ~2 months now with a S19j Pro 104TH and a Z15 (sorry I know this is a Bitcoin Forum so I will leave that one alone).

I have tried many pools/stratum servers/controllers but have yet to find what I'm looking for. I basically have 2 seperate questions or areas of interest:

1. Overclocking or Tweaking my hashboards to get the most optimal performance for my miner. I was super hyped to see the BrainsOS+ features for tweaking individual hash chips (3 x 126 for my miner) but the software is not compatible with my board (AMLogic).... but is compatible with Xilinx or Beaglebone. If necessary, I will just buy the 80$ control board, but would like to hear what you guys have to say about this.

2. Controlling my miner's real-time pool/coin to maximize the real-time value of my hashrate. On this subject I've gotten as far as any non-code proficient individual can... by I am not that individual. With 10 yrs coding experience, CS/Physics Degree, and amateur electronics enthusiast; I should be able to do better that to let Minerstat profit switch stupidly try to control my machine or create a stratum server that needs to be manually switched -> Stratu.ms (what's the use of having a stratum server if not to profit switch in real-time automatically... it's kind of useless if I have to be at the helm all day all night).

It's also noteable that to use profit-switching, one MUST understand what metrics are being used to evaluate switching coins. From what I can gather, most profit-switching algos (Minerstat's for sure) use the Difficulty, Network hashrate AND the real-time coin value which means that unless you are selling your mined coin in real-time this metric can be dangerously deceiving! On this note I have found Dutch Mining to at least solve that problem using the auto-convert function (at a price of 1.5%).

Soooooo, not to be tooooo gready, but here's what I would LOVE!

1. A stratum server with an API so I can write as little or as much into my own profit switching algo as I choose to. I think coupling the stratum server with the profit switcher is the most logical choice but I'd like to know if I am on the right track here.

2. An exchange service that will allow me to sell/swap/trade in real-time programatically so that the profit switching algo can use the coin value metric more precisely. And as an aside could allow me to develop a trading bot that could hedge/leverage my available margins to profit during bear/bull market fluctuations.

3. On my first question: the ability to maximize my machine's hashrate; and please don't refer me to Awsome Miner because it just isn't... awesome.

Thanks in advance for anyone that could help me along the way. I love to learn new things, and I know all the info I want is out there, but I am 45 years old with 2 children so re-inventing the wheel is really out of the question!

Thanks people!

PS: I noticed that there is a 4th com port on my Control Board... can I add a 4th Hashboard?